Re: Why are you using rdiff-backup?

[John Harman]

Hi Patrik,

Why are you using rdiff-backup ?
There were 4 strong reasons for our choice:
Platform agnostic (use on Windows & *nix)
Runs via SSH so minimal security/admin overhead
Instant access to a mirror copy of the origin for our most common need
Ability to easily add monitoring via bash scripts etc

How does it compare to other backup software ?
Prefer the powerful simplicity of Rdiff-backup compared to bloated
commercial equivalents we've looked at.
Google drive as a destination is one additional, useful, feature Duplicity
offers.

Keep up the good work, Eric especially. It is appreciated.

Hope this helps

John

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:44:15 -0400
From: Patrik Dufresne <patrik@ikus-soft.com>
To: Rdiff Backup <rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org>
Subject: Why are you using rdiff-backup?
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Hello,

While I'm not the most active developper, I'm spending quite a lot of time
writing articles and other material to attract more people into
rdiff-backup and rdiffweb. I'm a strong user of rdiff-backup and I clearly
don't need to be convinced to use rdiff-backup. But I would like to hear
what our users have to say on the subject.

Why are you using rdiff-backup ?

How does it compare to other backup software ?

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